Behavioral Health Specialist Float Pool CCO

Banner Health•Mesa, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Behavioral Health Specialist provides direct care to psychiatric patients under the direction of a registered nurse. This Resource Team role floats among units at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, a Level I trauma-designated facility. The position focuses on patient safety checks, assistance with activities of daily living, milieu management, falls prevention, and one-to-one observation. The role provides basic nursing care, monitors patients’ physical and mental status, supports treatment plans, and documents observations and interventions in the medical record while maintaining confidentiality. The Specialist helps maintain a safe, orderly, therapeutic environment; observes and reports patient behavior; responds to crisis or medical emergencies; and may redirect patients or participate in restraint or seclusion when needed. The role also includes therapeutic interaction with patients and families, facilitating group activities, supporting admission, discharge, and transfer processes, and maintaining knowledge of behavioral disorders and commonly prescribed medications. This is a full-time night-shift position, scheduled for three 12.5-hour shifts per week, from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. Weekend and holiday shifts are required on a rotating basis. Self-scheduling is available, and a $1-per-hour weekend shift differential is offered.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a behavioral health-related field, or a high school diploma or equivalent plus one year of direct patient care in an inpatient behavioral health setting.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Meet the age requirement specified by the state agency.
For applicable Arizona behavioral health roles serving children or staffing roles, possess and maintain the required Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card; an Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire.
For employees working in the Banner McKee Senior Behavioral Health Inpatient Unit, possess and maintain a Colorado Fingerprint Clearance Card.
Relevant experience may include inpatient psychiatric care; assistance with grooming and activities of daily living; conducting educational, recreational, or skills groups; maintaining a therapeutic milieu and observation precautions; applying non-violent de-escalation in crises; recognizing common mental illness symptoms and relating them to diagnoses; and providing ordered interventions.
Experience demonstrating therapeutic rapport, collaborative work with multidisciplinary teams, de-escalation techniques, and limit setting.

Nice To Haves

Additional related education and/or experience.

Responsibilities

Provide basic nursing care, including technical monitoring, taking vital signs, and providing physical care.
Orient patients to the treatment setting and assist with activities of daily living.
Review and participate in implementing patient treatment plans.
Make rounds; monitor patient activities and physical and mental status; and report findings to nursing staff.
Check patient belongings for contraband and conduct patient safety observations.
Document observations, interventions, and group activities in the patient medical record while maintaining confidentiality.
Help maintain a safe, orderly, and therapeutic environment and protect patient safety and rights through observation and reporting.
Recognize aggressive behavior, danger to self or others, crisis situations, and medical emergencies; intervene through redirection and, when needed, participation in restraint or seclusion.
Interact therapeutically with patients and families while promoting dignity, independence, individuality, strengths, privacy, and choice and respecting cultural diversity and patient boundaries.
Plan and facilitate social and didactic group activities and participate in other rehabilitation and treatment programs as appropriate.
Maintain knowledge of behavioral disorder symptoms and treatments, relevant regulations, and common medications and their side effects or adverse reactions.
Assist with patient admissions, discharges, and transfers and complete required medical-record documentation.
Work with clinical staff, multidisciplinary teams, patients, families, and medical and psychiatric physicians.